Barnhill5

The entry title "It was a dark and stormy night..." is the opening to Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton's (has there ever been a sillier name?) 1830 novel Paul Clifford. The line was made increasingly famous by Shulz as Snoopy repeatedly begins his perpetually-beginning novel in the same way.

But all that's all available for digestion on Wikipedia. Really, I just wanted to draw some lighting. Lightning is cool... it's all bright and stuff.

toothpaste89

seriously... can you please find a way to create without adding splatter, smears, or unnecessary stains all over? I mean really... pick up the game. The Otaku Twins are beating you now and I really don't know which is worse at this point.

Wow, I keep posting then reading more posts and I cant resist posting more! I mean, seriously if your going to post something as rude as the above your obviously mentally deranged or something (again, in a good way). Paint splatter is an art-form. When you insult this you insult me so keep such unruly and ignorant comments to yourselves (may I remind you that ignorance is bliss).

fairnymph

masterkraig wrote:Amazing design, I just think it would look stronger on navy. This on black just seems like a science-kid shirt to me :P

You're right. I've been trying to figure out (other than the streamers and glowing rocks) what bothers me about this shirt, even though I like the actual focus (moon/earth splitting) so much. And the black is part of it, and it's because it seems like a little boy 80s shirt. THANK YOU for nailing it in my mind.

I don't know if the navy would make up for the other stuff (I think I just don't like shirts with big designs/designs on much of the shirt), but I think it would improve it. I'm so torn though because the main part is really incredibly awesome. ARGH.

MaliceDR

This shirt is AMAZING! The graphic is incredible and the vision mind blowing. There are two problems however.

Firstly is the nagging feeling that this is the kind of shirt I would have worn fifteen years ago when I was a kid living in Huntsville, space capital of the freaking world, or at least the deep south.

The second problem is the placement. If you sized the image down a tad and move it to the right shoulder, it would be a lot more powerful and appear less kidish. It's a little on the late end to make an adjustment and resubmit, sad to say.

Kaliko2005

I am aware of the illegality of this shirt but I've been using photoshop alot today learning halftones and layer editing and I was wondering if this looked any better than the other stuff I've submitted. So basically, I just want your advice on the shirt How could i clean this up more?

eHalcyon

Kaliko2005 wrote:I am aware of the illegality of this shirt but I've been using photoshop alot today learning halftones and layer editing and I was wondering if this looked any better than the other stuff I've submitted. So basically, I just want your advice on the shirt How could i clean this up more?

Rather than submitting it, you could have just posted the image in the main derby thread.

It looks like you're using layer effects on that sphere - inner shadow, inner glow? I'm afraid you can't use those in shirt design. It also looks like you have gradients - blue to purple in the background and a white-to-green in the sphere. While gradients *may* be printable by woot, they've always been rejected in the derbies. Some rejection notices hint that they might accept simple gradients, but they don't define "simple" for us, and no gradients have survived thus far. Best to avoid them altogether.

In general, all the shapes of your design should be crisp - no anti-aliasing, no partially transparent pixels. Because the design should be created at high resolution, it will still look smooth when shrunk down for a shirt comp, and when printed on a shirt.

For designs in general, you should usually avoid the squared-off look. You've got a square background image on this one and it looks like you grabbed an image and dragged it over top of a shirt template. Instead, look for ways to integrate the design into the shirt, so it looks like it belongs there. In the same vein, try to avoid creating designs that are large sheets of ink.

Hope that helps. Feel free to ask for more clarification if I haven't been clear.

smedgrick

What a horrendous birth defect/disease! These people should be killed quickly before they have a chance to infect others. By the way, is the guy supposed to be "clowning around" with the kid? if so...gmv

Kaliko2005

eHalcyon wrote:Rather than submitting it, you could have just posted the image in the main derby thread.

It looks like you're using layer effects on that sphere - inner shadow, inner glow? I'm afraid you can't use those in shirt design. It also looks like you have gradients - blue to purple in the background and a white-to-green in the sphere. While gradients *may* be printable by woot, they've always been rejected in the derbies. Some rejection notices hint that they might accept simple gradients, but they don't define "simple" for us, and no gradients have survived thus far. Best to avoid them altogether.

In general, all the shapes of your design should be crisp - no anti-aliasing, no partially transparent pixels. Because the design should be created at high resolution, it will still look smooth when shrunk down for a shirt comp, and when printed on a shirt.

For designs in general, you should usually avoid the squared-off look. You've got a square background image on this one and it looks like you grabbed an image and dragged it over top of a shirt template. Instead, look for ways to integrate the design into the shirt, so it looks like it belongs there. In the same vein, try to avoid creating designs that are large sheets of ink.

Hope that helps. Feel free to ask for more clarification if I haven't been clear.

thanks a ton! yeah ill take to heart many things you said im getting better at this stuff i love it thanks again! also, one more question, are we actually limited to those colors listed on the woot template? also, where can i go to find a better looking shirt template?

mjc613

The main problem I have with this shirt is that I don't watch Sci Fi movies, so I didn't know who Mothra is . I of course know about Godzilla, but I did not realize that this is Baby Godzilla. He looks less like the grown version than the baby muppets look like theirs. jmo

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